Gratitude Journal: Remembering Summer

Welcome to our community gratitude journal, open to all who’d like to express their thanks or share a happy thought.

I’m happy we finally printed out our pictures from summer vacation!mom of 3

I am grateful that people find the courage to express their beliefs even at the risk of dismissal, ridicule, and harm. CWY

I’m grateful for Parents Night Out! Yay! Date Night!happy wife

I am grateful for having enough food, a place to live and a healthy family. While we are not rich we are SO fortunate compared to many many people in our worldGrateful Mom

I want to show the gratitude to my lovely mom who being a single mother has fulfilled our every wish and because of her I am here where one day I have thought off. So this is the time to say my loving and dear mom thanks.grants for single mothers

I’m grateful to my brother and sister-in-law who have decided to take our daughter on a weekend trip with them. She really misses her cousins and is excited about the visit.Oakland Mom

I’m so grateful my preschool granddaughter is able to visit us for several days. She’s delightful and we’re so blessed.Happy grandparents

I’m grateful that yesterday’s earthquakes were minor!Janine Kovac

Every week we post a photo submitted by one of our readers along with all the happy and thankful comments gathered throughout the week.

To contribute, email your gratitude (a sentence or two would be great) or your favorite photo to Janine at janinek@berkeley.edu.

You can also contribute by commenting at the bottom of this post. Please include: your name if you’d like us to use it and any other info you’d like us to list, e.g., if the “gratitude” is from one of your children, it would be great to know his or her age.

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I’m Christine Carter, Ph.D, a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. This blog is mostly science-based parenting advice: since I’m reading all the research related to raising happy children anyway, I thought we might as well make it useable to parents. My intention is to bring a scientific framing (what does the research actually say?) to our opinion-based parenting debates and advice. Sorting fact from fiction can be confusing when it comes to parenting.

This blog is also about me and my children. It represents the intersection of my brain and my heart: my intellectual training in the social sciences and my very real, sometimes raw, experiences as a mother.

This workshop is an introduction to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), an empirically-supported training program based on the pioneering research of Kristin Neff and the clinical perspective of Chris Germer.